Thursday, October 29, 2015 4:59 pm Record flooding in Mt. Rainer National Park, November 2006. Credit: National Park Service For some reason, the weather always seems to get dramatically stormier as soon as we switch from October into November. The weather could be fine for trick-or-treating, and then whammo! November rolls around, and there are more fallen […]
My Fall Forecast
Sunday, September 13, 2015 5:19 pm If you ask an astronomer when summer ends, they’ll tell you “September 23.” That is the date of the autumnal equinox, the date when the day and night are approximately equal in length (the day is always a couple minutes longer because the sun does not set all at […]
In With The Rains, Out With The Flames
Friday, August 28, 2015 11:36 pm Most of our wildfires are actually started by lightning, but that doesn’t mean you can have a tannerite party during a red flag warning., Hey everybody! I’m finally back from summer camp, and while I had an amazing time there, I am very excited to sleep in my own […]
My Winter Weather Outlook
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 6:02 pm Hey everybody, I actually just produced a winter weather outlook for WeatherOn, and you can find it here. Long story short, our weak El Nino played a major role in my forecast, and the previous existence of the “Blob” did to a lesser extent. Snow in Eugene Enjoy! Charlie
Windstorm Update #2
Sunday, September 29, 2013 11:27 p.m. Hey everybody, this is just going to be a quick post because I gots to go to bed soon. Anyway, the GFS was correct and the NAM was not. The NAM is often called the “Never Accurate Model” for that very reason. We still have high wind warnings up, […]
Watching the Satellite
Monday, December 3, 2012 10:36 A.M. 10:00 am PST Mon 03 Dec 2012 – UW West Coast 4km water vapor satellite Good morning everybody, I hope you are all having a nice first week of December. It was pretty rainy last night, but we’ll be heading into some calmer weather soon. However, we’ve got a […]
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